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but by then, the whole obama administration is that it's going to be too late. so now is the opportunity that we are going to be hearing from our panelists. each of us will present a little bit of a perspective on the panel about what happened that night. and i will have some q&a interaction and we will see even if we cannot, i'm sorry, even if we cannot answer the questions for you, perhaps we can help people to understand what are the right questions so that someday, whether it be a presidential candidate or a cnn moderator, or senators having dinner with the president, maybe somebody can come up with the right questions to ask and then hope and pray that someday we will get the proper answers. let me turn the time over to our panelists to make their remarks. roger? >> thank you very much, congressman. please hold your applause. [applause] >> somebody paying attention. let me begin by making a stark appraisal of what we learned from benghazi. many of you remember the famous commercials during the 2008 campaign about the 3:00 a.m. phone call. the primary lesson
but by then, the whole obama administration is that it's going to be too late. so now is the opportunity that we are going to be hearing from our panelists. each of us will present a little bit of a perspective on the panel about what happened that night. and i will have some q&a interaction and we will see even if we cannot, i'm sorry, even if we cannot answer the questions for you, perhaps we can help people to understand what are the right questions so that someday, whether it be a...
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undered obama administration. -- under the obama administration. if we do nothing, this red line of debt, mr. speaker, that destroys opportunity, that destroys america as we know it, continues. if we do nothing. f we do nothing. we can't ignore this problem away, mr. speaker. we must do something. and so year after year, mr. speaker, make it sound like i'm an old hand at this. in the three years i have been here, two years, two months, this house has presented a budget every single year. budgets that make tough choices. budgets that challenge each and every one of us to set those priorities of things that must happen versus those priority of things we would like to happen versus those priority of things that we could really do without. if it means a better america tomorrow. three years. touching things the prognosticators said would never be touched. folks said medicare was doomed to failure because no congress would ever be bold enough to do those things necessary to save it for another generation. but all three years i have been here, all three b
undered obama administration. -- under the obama administration. if we do nothing, this red line of debt, mr. speaker, that destroys opportunity, that destroys america as we know it, continues. if we do nothing. f we do nothing. we can't ignore this problem away, mr. speaker. we must do something. and so year after year, mr. speaker, make it sound like i'm an old hand at this. in the three years i have been here, two years, two months, this house has presented a budget every single year....
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administration. when you depart, you can pickup our last strategic a report -- strategic report. jointly authored by two of the foremost thinkers about middle east policy -- we are very proud of them are here at the washington institute, ambassador dennis ross, and ambassador james jeffrey. ambassador ross, we are about to hear from dennis, he served throughout most of the first term, first in the state department and then in the white house, with responsibility for overseeing all the national security council work in the middle east. ambassador jeffrey, jim jeffrey, completed his distinguished service in the diplomatic corps ast year after having served ambassador in turkey and iraq, previously in incarnation in albania. as the deputy national security adviser in the bush administration, in which she played a special role in addressing the iraq question. we brought these two highly experienced strategic thinkers together to produce a policy paper for the obama administration. we urge all of you to p
administration. when you depart, you can pickup our last strategic a report -- strategic report. jointly authored by two of the foremost thinkers about middle east policy -- we are very proud of them are here at the washington institute, ambassador dennis ross, and ambassador james jeffrey. ambassador ross, we are about to hear from dennis, he served throughout most of the first term, first in the state department and then in the white house, with responsibility for overseeing all the national...